2016 follows on as a natural continuation of 2015 which was an exceptional year for Airelle Besson : Awarded twice, as Best French Musician of the Year by the French Django Reinhardt Jazz Award Academy & as Jazz Revelation of the Year at the French Jazz award ceremony ‘Les Victoires du Jazz’. At the 2015 festival ‘Jazz sous les Pommiers’ in Coutances, where she is artist in residence for 3 years, Airelle caught the public’s attention with her brand new project: a quartet with Isabel Sörling on vocals, Benjamin Moussay on piano, fender Rhodes & bass synth and Fabrice Moreau on drums. Their new album <Radio One> was released in May 2016 on the French label Naïve. Concerts in France and worldwide will follow the release.

Airelle has an impressive track-record. She trained with Wynton Marsalis, Pierre Gillet and Kato Havas (Yehudi Menuhin‘s disciple) in Oxford, graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and was winner of the international jazz competition ‘Paris La Défense’ in 2008.

This multi-talented trumpet player shines on the European scene with her projects (the Airelle Besson Quartet and duo with Nelson Veras), as a much sought after side woman (with François Jeanneau, Riccardo Del Fra, Didier Levallet, Laurent Cugny and many more) and as a composer/arranger (Metronomy, Orchestre National de Lyon). She has performed with Charlie Haden and Carla Bley, Michel Portal, Youn Sun Nah, Philip Catherine, Billy Hart, Rhoda Scott, Daniel Humair, Magic Malik, Baptiste Trotignon, Henry Texier and so on.